 Welcome to the Welch Medical Library. This video will introduce you to the library's website and the resources available to you on it as a Johns Hopkins student, faculty, or staff member. The Welch Medical Library supports the research, clinical, and educational needs of Johns Hopkins medicine, nursing, public health, and its hospitals and health system. So you'll see that our main focus is on providing access to biomedical resources. Regardless of where you're physically located, you can access Johns Hopkins resources from the Welch website using your JED ID and password. When you select a resource from the library's website, you'll be prompted to log in with this information. Alternatively, you can log in as soon as you open the Welch website by clicking on the login link located on the top corner of the home page. The search box located in the center of the home page provides easy access to browse or search our resources. We know people like an easy way to find a few on-topic journal articles. Therefore, the primary search box on our home page is an integrated article search driven by Scopus, which is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. To begin, type your search terms in the lower box showing the word search Scopus for. Select the field you would like to search from the box above. Then click on the magnifying glass icon to run the search. If you prefer to search through Scopus directly, you can access it by clicking on the link in the top corner of the search box. Clicking on the journals tab allows you to search for journals. Typing words in the top search box provides you with access to approximately 20,000 journals by title and subject using subject terms curated and provided by the National Library of Medicine. To search all Hopkins Library collections for a specific journal or article, select the Access Journals A to Z link located in the top right of the search box. This will take you to our finding at Johns Hopkins Library's search interface where you can look up journals by title, ISSN for other specific citation information. The Databases tab allows you to access approximately 1200 databases. You can browse or search through a list of biomedical databases by using the top box or you can search for all of the databases available at Johns Hopkins by using the box just below it. Last, the books, journals, and media tab provides access to two searchable catalogs. The default setting searches the Hopkins online catalog known as Catalyst. Using the Search Catalysts 4 box searches the entire collection of resources available from all of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries, which includes over 150,000 journals and nearly a million electronic books. It also searches for articles through EBSCO databases similar to our Scopus article search. The Search World Catlink searches the collections of libraries around the world. Search results contain a link to the find it at Hopkins interface to provide easy access to materials. In the key resources section, we've highlighted some of the most frequently used Welch Library resources. These links will take you directly to the tools and databases listed here. The clinical tools box provides easy access to our most popular point of care tools used to find evidence-based summaries on specific diseases, conditions, or medications. In the literature databases box, you can access our most frequently used peer-reviewed literature databases. Last, the research tools box provides access to resources for managing your citations and conducting systematic reviews. To learn more about how to use these specific resources and the many other resources available to you at Hopkins, contact your Welch Informationist. Every school and department in the Hopkins Medical Community is assigned a Welch Library Informationist. Informationists have expert knowledge about resources specific to subject areas and are available to teach about their use. You can use the drop-down list on the library's homepage to find your Informationist. Informationists also provide subject guides to help you get started with your research. The list of these guides is available by selecting the heading, Find Your Informationist. From this page, click on the Informationist guide, search box, to see a complete list. The library also offers classes that you can register for. They cover topics such as searching techniques and how to use specific citation management tools. Many of these classes are offered in person while a growing number are available online as webinars. Select the View All Welch Classes link for the complete list of upcoming classes. If you're teaching or taking a course, your course reserves are accessed in the Reserves box. There is a link for student access and one for faculty access. Finally, if Hopkins doesn't have access to an item you need, we'll borrow it for you free of charge from another institution. This program is called Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery and is also known as WellDoc. Clicking on the Request and Item link will take you to your WellDoc account where you can request items and learn more about using this service. Just like the other resources on this website, you'll use your JET ID and password to log in. In summary, the Welch Library website is your access point to library resources and services available to you as a Hopkins affiliate. Logging in with your JET ID and password allows you to seamlessly access a wide range of databases, journals, books, and much more. For more information or to get help using the Welch Library website, visit the Get Help section of our website. Reach out to the Welch Service Center through chat, email or phone or contact your informationist directly.